2.【Unit-2】Text-I--Please-Marry-Me综合商务英语教程3课文.pptxVIP

【Unit 2】Text I Please Marry Me 1 【Unit 2】Text I Please Marry Me Please Marry Me Say yes, and you’re in for more than love, children and a home. Better health and a longer life are part of the deal. Lori Oliwenstein 1 【1】Miriam Kamin is feeling a lot better now. It was rough there for a while – the collapse of her nine-year marriage, and four years of single parenting while building a career as a corporate blogger2. Then, last May, she married Mark, a longtime friend. And that, she says, has made all the difference 3 . 【2】“I’ve struggled with depression for most of my life,” she explains. “Yet, despite the fact that I’ve moved, relocated my kids and am working harder than I have in a very long time, I’m not on medication right now. I had no idea marriage was supposed to be this much fun.” 【3】Never mind the popular palaver the couple, security for the kids and societal stability. Pair up with often clashing needs, add the pressure-cooker variables of kids, doctor bills, career, housework, and the fact that someone – he knows who he is – can’t pull himself away from the TV during college-basketball season, and there are bound to be problems. Marriage is criticized as a source of stress (and it is), conflict 4 about marriage as a source of bliss for 5 any two people 6 7 8 9 (that too) and endless crises that need to be resolved (guilty there as well). 【 4】 But it’s also something more. Decades of data collection have shown that marriage – for all10 its challenges – is like a health-insurance policy. Marriage means no more drinking at bars until closing, no more eating ramen11 noodles and calling it a meal. Married people are less likely to smoke or drink heavily than people who are single, divorced or widowed. These sorts of lifestyle changes are known to lower rates of cardiovascular disease12, cancer and respiratory13 diseases. And while you might sometimes gripe14 that your spouse drives you nuts15, just the opposite is true. Married people have lower rates of all ty